Analytics Engineer, Lightning Reach
£55-75k
Long term incentive scheme
Connecting people in need to financial support
Be an early applicant
Connecting people in need to financial support
1-20 employees
Be an early applicant
£55-75k
Long term incentive scheme
1-20 employees
Company mission
To be the leading global platform that seamlessly connects people to personalised financial and wellbeing support, empowering them to improve their financial health and thrive.
Role
Who you are
- Strong SQL skills and experience working with modern data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, or similar)
- Experience designing analytics data models and reporting layers
- Experience building dashboards and data visualisations
- Experience with BI tools such as Superset, Looker, Tableau, or Metabase
- Experience managing data transformations using dbt, Dataform, or similar frameworks
- Ability to structure and analyse data to answer business questions
- Clear communication and collaboration skills
- Comfortable working in a small team environment
Desirable
- Experience building customer-facing or embedded analytics
- Familiarity with SaaS or product analytics data models
- Experience managing BI environments or data governance
- Background in fintech, non-profit, or public sector environments
What the job involves
- We're looking for an Analytics Engineer to develop and maintain the data models and reporting infrastructure used for analytics at Lightning Reach
- Data from our application databases is streamed into BigQuery. You’ll turn that raw data into a scalable, well-structured analytics foundation - defining how data is modelled, organised, and used across the company
- This is a high-ownership role with the opportunity to build the data model from the ground up and set the standard for how we use data to measure performance and impact
- You'll also own our reporting environment, ensuring data is reliable, accessible, and useful for both internal teams and external stakeholders - working closely with engineering, product, and operations to make that happen
- Design and maintain the analytics data model in BigQuery
- Develop and maintain data transformations that convert raw application data into structured analytics datasets
- Define shared metrics and reporting datasets
- Ensure data quality, documentation, and efficient query performance
- Manage datasets and dashboards in Apache Superset for internal and customer-facing reporting
- Perform analysis to support product, operational, and impact reporting
- Work with engineering and other teams to understand data structures and reporting needs
- The role involves using Google Cloud Platform and Cloud SQL
Application process
- Apply via Welcome to the Jungle
- First round interview with our Product team
- Take home task, followed by a task assessment call with the team
- Final round interview
Our take
The institutions that provide grants currently rely on manual processes to verify the financial information of applicants, which is a very slow process requiring a lot of time and effort. Lightning Reach is a social enterprise setting out to change this by developing proprietary technology which quickly verifies financial needs and accelerates decision-making.
According to Lightning Reach, its proprietary technology can reduce the time associated with this process from over 5 weeks to 3 days. It also decreases the amount of paperwork involved whilst increasing the security of data used.
The startup was founded in the middle of the Covid-19 Pandemic, with the purpose of helping people in financial hardship access financial support faster. Since then, its grown considerably and has partnerships with the likes of OVO Energy, Royal British Legion, TSB as well as other big names.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Oct 2023
$1.4m
SEED
May 2021
$0.4m
ANGEL
Total funding: $2.1m
Company benefits
- Work from Anywhere
- Share Options
- Home Office Setup or Co-Working Allowance
- Learning Budget
- 24 Days Holiday (+ Bank Holidays)
Company values
- We think big: We work in a quick and agile manner to build innovative solutions.
- We collaborate: We place people at the centre and work together to solve real problems.
- We care deeply: We are supportive, open and put empathy at the heart of our work.
- We are inclusive: We treat everyone with fairness, respect and integrity.
- We work with purpose: We take ownership and commit towards making an impact in all that we do.
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Leadership
Ren Yi Hooi
(Founder & CEO)Previously Senior Associate Consultant at Bain & Company, Project Manager, Sales & Loyalty at Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Partnership Manager (Asia) at (MILVIK) BIMA and Product Director & Director of Financial Inclusion at Railsbank.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Lightning Reach
- We have a truly inclusive workplace that breeds innovation, spearheaded by our Founder and CEO, Ren Yi Hooi, who is one of few Fintech founders who is an immigrant and woman of colour
- We believe that diversity brings strength and fosters innovation. The team at Lightning Reach currently is 50% female and 33% BAME.
- We are proud to have been recognised by TechNation and awarded the Rising Stars Diversity and Inclusion Award.
- Not only is it our mission to create an inclusive workplace, but also to build a product where users can find support, regardless of their background.
- During recruitment, we encourage those from diverse backgrounds (including gender identity, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexuality, disability or age) or lived experience of financial hardship to apply and make efforts to ensure selected applicants are representative of different backgrounds.
- We ensure we have a diverse interview panel and create transparency through sharing salary ranges, which empowers candidates who may otherwise have been discriminated against in salary negotiations.
- We are committed to developing each team member through mentoring, training, and performance reviews, so that regardless of their background or experience, we work together to meet their goals for growth and advancement.
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